"Pei Ji, please stop talking. I have to take action this time. If I don't take action, I won't be known in the world!"
Li Yuan looked at Pei Ji in front of him and said.
"But the Crown Prince and the King of Qin are fighting, and the outcome is already clear. The Crown Prince has already won a great victory, and the King of Qin has been defeated. What's the point of provoking them to fight now? If the King of Qin wants to take action now, the Crown Prince is not as capable of fighting as the King of Qin. , once you take action, the prince's life will be in danger. When the King of Qin becomes dominant, the situation will be even more unfavorable to you. Hey, it's my fault. If it weren't for my advice, Liu Wenjing wouldn't have died. Those The minister will not have any grudge against you, and the situation will not be like this."
Pei Ji, who was wearing purple material, looked at Li Yuan and said.
The Liu Wenjing he was talking about was the mastermind behind Li Yuan's rebellion.
Liu Wenjing began to befriend Li Yuan since he was left behind in Taiyuan. It was also from that time that Li Yuan, Pei Ji, and Liu Wenjing began to plan against the Sui Dynasty, because Li Yuan could not survive until the Sui Dynasty, and although Yang Guang was talented, he was not as good as Yang Jian. , Yang Jian’s strategies can only be played by Yang Jian, and no one else can.
You must know that although the Sui Dynasty was unified, the local forces also had their own forces. The central government had no direct jurisdiction over those forces. It relied on the powerful military power of the Sui Dynasty to suppress them. .
Even though Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty abolished the nine-level Zhongzheng system, took back the power of local government, to a certain extent broke the restrictions on the family status of scholars, and suppressed the powerful clans, but these forces still occupied the court, and Li Yuan was one of these forces. one.
These forces were very angry with Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.
You must know that whether it is censusing the population or equalizing land, these are all cutting off the flesh of these powerful families, so everyone's desire to defeat the Sui Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger!
The most important thing is that Yang Jian and Yang Guang actually want to escape from the control of Guanlong Group!
Guanlong Group does not allow this!
The Guanlong Group was a military aristocratic group that successively promoted Yang Jian and Li Yuan to the throne of emperor.
This group appeared very early, but it has never appeared as a political group. They have always been military aristocrats.
And there are constant disputes between this group.
In the past two hundred years, this military aristocratic group, mainly composed of Huhua Han people, founded four dynasties: the Western Wei, the Northern Zhou, the Sui, and the Tang dynasties.
But their real appearance in history was in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, when the Guanlong Group first appeared. At this time, there were eight pillar states and twelve generals. This is a unique miracle in Chinese history. In the middle and late sixth century AD, the formation and evolution of the Guanlong Group roughly went through four periods. Since Yang Jian established the unification of China in the Sui Dynasty, the high morale and broad-mindedness of the Guanlong military group, which was striving for success and eager for military glory, were also brought into the mainstream of the Central Plains cultural spirit, thus sweeping away the spiritual decline of high talk, extravagance and gloom since the two Jin Dynasties.
But Yang Jian started to attack them. Suppressing the Guanlong nobles was what Emperor Wen and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had been doing. They were both motivated by the Guanlong forces but betrayed the Guanlong forces. That's why Li Yuan, a relative of the Yang family and a descendant of Li Hu from the Eight Pillars Kingdom, became the boss of the new Guanlong Group.
It was at this time that Liu Wenjing relied on him. When he conquered the world, Liu Wenjing also made great efforts, such as sending an envoy to the Turks and resisting the Sui army general Qu Tutong.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Wenjing was appointed Nayan and became prime minister. As a hero of Taiyuan Yuanmou, he also received the privilege of "forgiving two deaths" together with Qin Wang Li Shimin and Pei Ji. However, when he followed Li Shimin to conquer Xue Ju, the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty, because he was greedy for power and rushed forward, the entire army was wiped out and defeated. He fled back to Chang'an alone and was dismissed from his position. Later, he followed Li Shimin to conquer the Western Qin Dynasty. Western Qin was pacified. Liu Wenjing regained her title and fiefdom due to her meritorious service, and was worshiped as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, leading the Shaanxi Province to travel to the left.
He was considered a high-ranking official, but he thought he was more talented than Pei Ji, and had repeatedly made military exploits, but his status was far inferior to Pei Ji, so he felt unsatisfied. He often opposed Pei Ji when discussing government affairs, and criticized anything that Pei Ji agreed with. be opposed to. There has been deep conflict between the two.
Later, Liu Wenjing and her brother Liu Wen had a banquet. After getting drunk, they complained and drew their swords to chop the pillars of the hall, saying that they were determined to kill Pei Ji. It happened that evil spirits occurred several times at home, so Liu Wenqi summoned a wizard to drive away the evil spirits at night with his hair spread and a knife in hand.
At this time, Liu Wenjing had a concubine who had fallen out of favor and told her brother about the matter, asking him to report to the emperor, falsely accusing Liu Wenjing of treason. Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty handed Liu Wenjing over to his subordinates and ordered Pei Ji to interrogate Xiao Yu.
Then Liu Wenjing was told directly by Pei Ji that she lost her life.
This is what Pei Ji is talking about now. You must know that Liu Wenjing was Li Yuan's mastermind, but he was killed by Li Yuan and left behind. The high bird is gone, but the good bow is hidden. This is a true statement.
It was this sentence that caused some separation between the officials in the court and Li Yuan.
"It's not your fault. If it hadn't been for this, I wouldn't have known that the people of the world were actually chosen as the leader by those in Guanlong! Humph! You must know that I am the emperor, and I am the only one who has the qualifications to designate who will ascend the throne!"
Li Yuan was a little angry and his expression was ferocious. As an emperor, he found out that his throne was arranged by someone else. How angry he was!
"Now I understand why my cousin wanted to abolish Yang Guang at that time!"
Li Yuan said through gritted teeth.
Pei Ji didn't say anything at this time, because it was not something he could interrupt.
"After tomorrow, I will let the world know who belongs to this world. No matter it is Guanlong or Shandong, no one can control me!"
Hearing Li Yuan's words, Pei Ji was shocked, "Your Majesty, you want to bring the prince together..."
Pei Ji didn't say the following words. This was really exciting. The emperor wanted to sweep the two major forces, the prince and the king of Qin, out of the court!
"Yes! The prince has dealt with it together. I really want them to know that this world belongs to me. Whoever I want to hand it over to is the prince!"
Li Yuan no longer concealed his determination at this time, "Does the Rongyang Zheng family think that by marrying their legitimate daughter to the prince, they can make the Shandong nobles rise? It's really funny. I really won't let them be above me." Come on, no matter who it is, don’t even think about it!”
At the end, Li Yuan thought of the Guanlong forces again, and then added that it doesn't matter who it is.
"But among your majesty's sons, aren't the prince and the King of Qin the most powerful?"
At the end of the sentence, Pei Ji's eyes widened and he looked at Li Yuan. He thought of a person, a person with strength and ability.
Pei Ji immediately blurted out someone, "King Qi?!"
